Questions f/ Maddow abt mustard gas bomb in clam shells:

[Panich52]

How the hell did an unexploded bomb end up in a pile of clam shells the guy ordered f/ his driveway? Weren't they already crushed? Did the company just scoop up a whole bed of clams & let them die -- and not crush them? HOW THE HELL DID THE COMPANY MISS THAT DEFINITELY-NOT-A-CLAM SHELL?

[jberryhill]

1. Happens often with dredging in the Delaware Bay

One of the places Delaware gets its sand for beach replenishment is an old offshore artillery range. Also, unused munitions were often dumped at sea. Stuff like that shows up from time to time. It's not an unusual occurrence:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6216a7.htm?mobile=nocontent

Here's one from 2005:

http://articles.philly.com/2005-02-16/news/25444188_1_hand-grenades-munitions-ordnance

The ordnance was dredged up over the last 18 months from the ocean floor during mechanical clam-harvesting operations off the New Jersey coast, in the vicinity of Atlantic City, according to Robert Williams of the Army Corps of Engineers, which is conducting the probe.

More than 300 munitions - mostly British- and French-made hand grenades but at least one 75mm projectile containing a chemical agent - have been recovered from 18 driveways and a Delaware clam-processing plant, Williams said.